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Nostradamus
Introduction of a Wikipedia article. Complete article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus
Mi
de Nostredame, usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and
re
seer who published
collecti
of
prop
that have
sin
bec
famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les
Propheti
( "The Prophecies "), the
fir
edition of
wh
appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with the popular press,
cre
him with predicting many major world events. The prophecies have in some cases been assimilated to the results of
app
the alleged
Bi
code, as
we
as to
oth
pur
prophetic works.
Mo
academic sources maintain that the associations made
betw
world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are largely the result of
misinter
or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or
el
are so
tenuo
as to
ren
them useless as evidence of any
gen
predictive power. Moreover,
no
of the sources listed offers any
evi
that anyone has ever
inte
any of Nostradamus's quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any event in advance.
